Art events for July, 2011

25 July – 30 October 2011 Exhibition conception: Dorota Róz-Mielecka Images of Buddha, screens, lacquer wares, vases, kimonos – all gilt or decorated with gold. Alongside historic objects, the exhibition features contemporary objects: a mouse pad, a phone card, and facial tissues. Gold has always been very important in Japan’s art and culture. Glimmering and […]

An international contemporary art programme Kerameikos-Metaxourgeio, Athens, Greece 12 September–30 October 2011 Opening: Monday 12 September, 17:00 www.remapkm.org ReMap is an international contemporary art platform open and free to the public, which is held bi-annually in the area of Kerameikos-Metaxourgeio in Athens, in tandem with the Athens Biennial. It is organized by ReMapKM, a not-for-profit […]

Birgit Lohmann, designboom editor-in-chief at Istanbul Design Symposium titled "Why Design? Why Biennial?" (2–3 December 2010), a pre-event of the Design Biennial. Istanbul Design Biennial announces its theme: Imperfection 13 October–16 December 2012 tasarimbienali.iksv.org/en The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and the Arts (IKSV), will present the first Istanbul Design Biennial, which will take place from […]

Elene Rakviashvili, "Where You Belong" 2010. Installation. The Journey to the East 5 August–30 September 2011 Opening: 17:00 Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok Mickiewicza 2, Bialystok, Poland Installations in city space www.galeria-arsenal.pl Project is a part of the Cultural Programme of the Polish EU Presidency in 2011.

Photo: archive of the Moravian Gallery in Brno 13.05.2011 – 14.08.2011 This time the selection from Grimm's collection of plans includes some of the architectural drawings made by Franz Anton Grimm in the second half of the 1730s in Rome during his studies in the studio of the renowned architect Nicola Salvi, who designed the […]

7 July – 4 September 2011 Place: The Poster Museum, Wilanów Curator: Rafal Nowakowski The Polish Poster Exhibition is a periodic, nation-wide display organised every two years by the Poster Museum in Wilanów. All the works designed and printed in the last two years are accepted, thus the Exhibition concentrates the most celebrated […]

16 July 2011 – 4 September 2011 The exhibition, housed on two floors of Building A of the Hungarian National Gallery, explores the current concerns of the young generation of Hungarian artists. The material for Speaks for Itself features a selection of works submitted in response to three questions concerning the newgeneration's interests and way […]

24 June 2011 – 18 September 2011 This major exhibition gathers many of the most significant works of contemporary art from Poland by a generation of artists who have made their careers since the fall of communism in the country in 1989. More than 30 internationally renowned artists such as Monika Sosnowska, Wilhelm Sasnal, […]

13 July 2011 – 9 October 2011 Main Building, al. 3 Maja 1 The Treasures of the Spanish Crown is an exhibition of masterpieces dating from 1470 – 1870 and lent to the National Museum in Krakow by Patrimonio Nacional de Espana (the Spanish National Heritage), the organisation responsible for administering Spain’s royal sites […]

15.07 — 09.10. 2011 Michal Ranný (1946 Brno – 1981 Praha), in whose memory the prize is awarded, was an important ﬁ gure of modern Czech painting, a leading proponent of lyrical abstraction, whose work blends the natural with the existential. The prematurely deceased artist whose life and works inspired a number of other artists, himself followed […]

23 September–20 November 2011 Brody Condon, The Twentyfivefold Manifestation, 2008. Performance at Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur. Courtesy Sonsbeek 2008, Arnhem. The art event—the central theme of the 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana—experienced a remarkable development in the twentieth century and today appears as a privileged medium. It is employed as a medium by a […]

Lithuanian pavillion at the 54th Venice biennale (2011) 2011.VI.04 – IX.18 Address of the Pavilion “Scuola S. Pasquale,” Castello 2786, Venice What would the first national exhibition of Lithuanian art, held in 1907, look like if it were assembled today? In 1907, Lithuanian artists worked in different geographical contexts, yet they were united by their […]

Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkácová, still from "Manifesto of the Futurist Woman (Let’s Conclude)," 2008.* Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central and Eastern Europe Co-produced by The Power Plant and the Art Gallery of Alberta 1 July–5 September 2011 Opening: 30 June, 8–11 PM The Power Plant 231 Queens Quay West Toronto, Ontario M5J […]

Opening: 19.05.2011 at 18:00 To use Walter Benjamin's terminology, Gomulicki can also be called a producer of culture. Looking at Gomulicki's work retrospectively, one notices the evolution of forms revolving around the categories of pleasure and ecstasy, already evident in the series of photographs shown in the 90s, ia, in the ZPAF-CSW Little Gallery; photographs […]